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University of DaytoneCommonsElectro-Optics Newsletter Department of Electro-Optics and PhotonicsSpring 2013EON, Vol. 01, No. 02Department of Electro-Optics and PhotonicsFollow this and additional works at: http://ecommons.udayton.edu/eop_newsletterThis Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Electro-Optics and Photonics at eCommons. It has been accepted forinclusion in Electro-Optics Newsletter by an authorized administrator of eCommons. For more information, please contact frice1@udayton.edu,mschlangen1@udayton.edu.Recommended CitationDepartment of Electro-Optics and Photonics, "EON, Vol. 01, No. 02" (2013). Electro-Optics Newsletter. 4.http://ecommons.udayton.edu/eop_newsletter/4also be funding our future students. The diversifica-tion of LOCI was discussed in the  Board of Governors meeting last year. EO nur-tures small companies e.g., Optonicus, DEC, FMI, and UtopiaCompression, who in turn hire our graduates.   For the first time, EO will be offering 4 short courses this summer on contempo-rary topics such as digital holography, nonlinear op-tics, LADAR, and thin-film engineering. These courses are open to students, as well as engineers and sci-entists in industry and government. We plan to offer these courses at the UD China Institute in 2015.  This should help attract top-notch students from Chinese universities, one of which, Harbin, recently visited us.  We are cur-rently partnering with China Southern Glass Hold-ings, to fabricate electro-chromic glass for commer-cial applications.  We hope that this “thin-film diplo-macy” will open the door to many more partnerships with China in the future.   Welcome to EO at UD, one of a select group of uni-versities with a s p e c i a l i z e d program in optics. Our vision is “to become an internationally recognized premier electro-optics program”. Our mis-sion is to (a) provide the highest quality graduate education in EO, support the educational needs of undergraduate students in other programs, serve the continuing educational needs of defense and in-dustry, and enhance optics and photonics education at all levels; (b) create and disseminate new knowl-edge and innovations in optics and photonics by conducting, presenting, and publishing cutting-edge fundamental and applied research; (c) en-gage in development of Ohio’s and the nation’s knowledge-based and tech-nology-based defense pro-grams and industries, and create, foster, and sustain mutually beneficial re-search collaborations and partnerships with defense and industry; and (d) en-gage in international re-search partnerships and become an internationally recognized leader in EO education and research.   The EO program contrib-utes significantly to UD’s national recognition.  EO had  $2.5M in research expenditures last year.  EO recently won a 5-year        $4.5M MURI from AFOSR as the lead institution, partnering with NC State, Michigan Tech, and AFIT.  EO has a top-notch MS and PhD program with a consis-tent  enrollment of over 40. Over 90% of  students are RAs (many through AFRL, DARPA, Army) or TAs (from Physics).  EO has provided AFRL consistently with needed expertise and a highly trained workforce.   EO prides itself in its laser radar and optical commu-nication institute (LOCI), which works closely with the AFRL sensors division. LOCI is diversifying to other directorates at AFRL, viz., materials, who will Director’s corner       Partha Banerjee Electro-Optics News, University of Dayton EON Inside this issue SPOTLIGHT: Optoni-cus grows with strong EO ties   2 Virtually nano: nanotech course with Lifesize video   2 Fall ’12 graduates 3 Selected faculty, student journal publications   3 Team bonding in a deeply turbulent atmosphere   3 Summer short course series  4 Zhan, Sarangan receive awards, recognition   4 EON Helpdesk: how to write a winning PhD proposal   3 Spring 2013 Volume 1, Issue 2 Faculty Partha Banerjee Brad Duncan Joseph Haus Peter Powers Andrew Sarangan Mikhail Vorontsov Qiwen Zhan  with  Vijay Asari Monish Chatterjee Andy Chong Cong Deng Matt Dierking Dean Evans Russ Hardie Kiego Hirakawa John Loomis Paul McManamon Nick Miller Rita Peterson Ernst Polnau Guru Subramanyam Ed Watson Thomas Weyrauch Perry Yaney Editor: Partha P. Banerjee Dr. Andrew Sarangan (right) with researchers from China Southern Glass Holdings (CSGH) who visited his nanofab facility to collaborate on research funded by CSGH on developing electrochromic thin film coatings on glass for commericial applications.  Also participat-ing in this joint project are Drs. Joe Haus, Cong Deng, and Jian Gao from EO.    Optonicus, a small business which was spun out of EO by Professor Vorontsov in 2009, has seen considerable growth due to close working partner-ships with UD students, re-searchers and post-docs.   Optonicus now has a staff of 15, and is co-located with the Intelligent Optics Laboratory (IOL) in EO.  It offers a unique opportunity for students to gain insight into the inner workings of a start-up com-pany while studying for ad-vanced degrees.       The Optonicus/UD team has won 3 Small Business Tech-nology Transition Research (STTR) awards.  The topics include: intelligent beam control for optical phased array transceivers, developing an extended-range atmos-pheric sensing suite of instru-ments for deep turbulence characterization, and building scalable adaptive fiber-array elements for directed energy phased arrays.  One of the Phase I’s has now transi-tioned into Phase II.  This growth, along with other Broad Agency Announce-ments (BAAs) and additional Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contracts has enabled Optonicus to grow and hire new staff, including  Mr. Juan Gonzalez, a renew-able and clean energy MS student, as a Jr. Software Engineer, and Mr. Guimin Wu, a fall 2012 MS EO graduate as an EO Engineer.   Recently, Dr. Arun Mazum-dar, an expert in free space optical communications and co-author of a textbook on the topic, visited Optonicus to pursue areas of collaboration and to present a colloquium titled “Retrocommunications in presence of Atmospheric Turbulence”.    Finally, Optonicus and UD are working together to pro-mote funding of a Center for Advanced Laser Manufactur-ing (CALM) with intelligent fiber-array and robotic tech-nologies to create the next generation of fiber-array laser tools for materials processing (joining, welding, cutting, precision hole drilling and additive manufacturing).  SPOTLIGHT: OPTONICUS grows with strong EO ties Page 2 EON Volume 1 Issue 2 Spring 2013 “We are currently working with the Dayton Regional STEM Center to develop two high school course modules on Nano-technology that will be available to teachers across the nation.”  - Joe Haus, LOCI, EO Optonicus and UD EO team members pose outside CPC.  Shown from right to left, Susie Engle (Office Manager), Thomas Weyrauch (EO Senior Researcher), Gui Min (Design Engineer and EO MS graduate), Andrew Deck (Optonicus Mechanical Engineer), Mikhail Vorontsov (Optonicus CTO & Professor of EO), Rob Markovich (Optonicus CFO), Tom Tumolillo, Jr. (Optonicus CEO), Michelle Kraczek (Optonicus and Intelligent Optics Lab Assistant Office Manager),  Pavel Lou-govski (Optonicus Research Scientist),  and Jean Minet (Visiting EO Post-Doctoral Researcher). Virtually nano: nanotech course with Lifesize video  Last Fall, Dr. Haus introduced a new undergraduate course called the Principles of Nanotechnology that exam-ined electronic, optical and mechanical effects of materi-als that are structured on the nanoscale.  Besides learning about nanofabrication tools, students also had a chance to speak with a researcher in the lab while experiments were in progress. Space limi-tations in the Nanofab Lab made it hard to place all stu-dents in the facility.  A new interactive video system was therefore developed by Dr. Sarangan using the joint UD -Sinclair Community College NSF grant. This innovative technique was built using a Lifesize Team 220 video con-ferencing system on a mobile platform.  It has two high-definition cameras and  two-way video and audio links to help engage viewers and give them an opportunity to par-ticipate in the experiments (see YouTube video at: http://www.youtube .com/watch?v=0PKtRHjGJqs). Stu-dents were also introduced in class to a simulator, called the Virtual NanoLab, to ex-plore all the steps required in making a nanoscale device, viz., deposition, patterning, lithography, and etching. Furthermore, guest speakers from  industry and govern-ment gave seminars in the course, which contributed to a richer student experience. Dr. Sarangan teaching from his lab (top), while students are viewing the lecture from the classroom (bottom). http://www.optics.unm.edu/exam_phd.htm Now, a real qualifier question: How can you use a few glass plates to create linearly polarized light from unpolarized light? [U. of Michigan] Kwalifying Korner   P. Shah, H. Knachel, A. Sarangan, and K. Hansen, “Nanostructured columnar thin films for biological and chemical sensing applica-tions”, J. Electrochem. Soc. (2012).     A. Sarangan, P. Shah, and X. Niu, and K. Hansen, “High aspect ratio silver nanorod thin films grown at cryogenic substrate temperature”, Nanoscience Lett. (2012).   X. Niu, P. Murray, and A. Sarangan, “Synthesis of Fe–Ni bimetallic nanoparticles from pixel target ablation: plume dynamics and surface charac-terization”, J. Nanoparticle Res. (2012).   Q. Zhan, “Special Issue In-troduction: Editorial”, Int’l J. Optics, Hindawi (2012).   Q. Zhan, Z. Rui, R. Nelson, W. Chen, and D. Abeysinghe, “Hybrid spiral plasmonic lens: towards an efficient minia-ture circular polarization analyzer”, Opt. Exp. 20, 26299-26307 (2012).   Q. Zhan, Z. Rui, A. Liu, X. Ren, G. Guo, and G. Guo,   “Encoding photonic angular momentum information onto surface plasmon polaritons with plasmonic lens” Opt. Exp. 20, 24151-24159 (2012).     Q. Zhan, J. Wang, and W. Han, “Creation of uniform three-dimensional optical chain through tight focusing of space-variant polarized beams”, J. Optics 14, 055004 (2012).    Q. Zhan, W. Chen, and R. Nelson, “Efficient miniature circular polarization analyzer design using hybrid spiral plasmonic lens”,  Opt. Lett. 37, 1442-1444 (2012).   Q. Zhan, “Trapping metallic Rayleigh particles with radial polarization: reply to com-ment”, Opt. Exp. 20, 6058-6059 (2012).   G. Nehmetallah and P. Banerjee, “Applications of digital and analog hologra-phy in three-dimensional imaging”, invited review arti-cle, Adv. Opt. Photonics 4, 472-553 (2012).   J. Haus, B. Ibarra-Escamilla, O. Pottiez, E. Kuzin, R. Gra-jales-Coutiño, and P. Zaca-Moran, “Experimental investi-gation of self-starting opera-tion in a F8L based on a sym-metrical NOLM”, Opt. Comm.  281, 1226-1232 (2012).   M. Scalora, M. Vincenti, D. de Ceglia, N. Akozbek, V. Roppo, M. Bloemer, and J. Haus, “Dynamical model of harmonic generation in cen-trosymmetric semiconductors at visible and UV wave-lengths”, Phys. Rev. A 85, 053809 (2012).   M. Scalora, M. Vincenti, D. de Ceglia, M. Grande, and J. Haus, "Raman scattering near metal nanostructures," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29, 2035-2045 (2012).     For earlier publications in 2012, please see EON 1 (1), 2012. General structure a. Introduction: background, motivation, literature review  b. Objective/Purposes/Hypothesis  c. Methods d. Preliminary results e. Future work, timeline f. Bibliography Important: committee sees the proposal as a contract. The hardest part is the in-troduction.  Remember: 1. It is not a literature re-view! It should be a sum-mary of existing evidence that motivates your specific, proposed work. 2. Start broad, but become increasingly specific. 3. End with a review, and broaden out to discuss po-t e n t i a l  a p p l i c a t i o n s (importance) of the pro-posed work. 4. Topics to be addressed: what’s been done; what hasn’t; what is needed and why.  Indicate your part or contribution clearly. 5. Intro should contain statements of objectives, purposes, and hypothesis.  6. When summarizing exist-ing literature, it is not enough just to describe what  authors X, Y, and Z did. Results should be inter-preted, in context of overall review and study objectives. http://filebox.vt.edu/n/nussbaum/subpages/ProposalHowTo.pdf  Mexico State University (NMSU) and University of Miami (UM) [EON,1(1), 2012].    Dr. Vorontsov noted that the classical Kolmogorov theory of turbulence can be successfully applied not only for short optical paths near the ground, but also for fully developed turbulence within heights up to 14 km.  Above this, the presence of well distinguished atmospheric layers characterized by sharp variations in refractive index   Members of the UD MURI consortium on “Wave optics of deep atmospheric turbu-lence” had their kickoff meet-ing on October 4-5, 2012 at the UD River Campus to dis-cuss collaborative research. Dr. Mikhail Vorontsov, WBI Chair Professor of EO at UD, leads the $4.5M AFOSR pro-ject, which includes Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Michigan Tech Univer-sity (MTU), North Carolina State University (NCSU), New can result in strong optical refraction effects such as optical mirages, signal fad-ing, and caustics. The 2 day workshop included  talks by Drs. Kent Miller (AFOSR), Tom Farrell and Mike Eismann (AFRL), Steve Fiorino (AFIT), Sukanta Basu (NCSU), Dave Vo e l z  (NMS U ) ,  O l g a Korotkova (UM), and Tom DeFelice (ARL).  Along with research, the team will also offer a new course on Atmos-pheric Optics in Fall 2013.  Selected faculty, student journal publications 2012 Team bonding in a deeply turbulent atmosphere Page 3 Fall 2012 Graduates Maureen Crotty, MS Craig Slonaker, MS Chenchen Wan, MS Erica Whitfield, MS Guimin Wu, MS Congratulations! EON Volume 1 Issue 2 Spring 2013 “Despite a number of observed violations, the classical Kolmogorov theory still plays a significant role for analysis of atmospheric optical systems.”  - Mikhail Vorontsov, WBI Endowed Chair, EO.  Introducing a new course  Fall 2013 Introduction to  Atmospheric Optics • Fundamentals of atmos-pheric physics, global and macro optical effects • Atmospheric optical turbu-lence • Optical waves propagation in atmosphere; deep turbu-lence effects • Atmospheric optical effects: analysis and simulations • Atmospheric effects: mitiga-tion and exploitation. Instructors: Dr. Vorontsov & MURI  team members     EON Helpdesk: How to write a  winning PhD  proposal To date he has 1 book chap-ter, over 70 journal articles and 60 conference publica-tions, 4 patents and 1 patent application. Interested read-ers are referred to the invited review monograph in the inaugural issue of the Ad-vances in Optics and Photon-ics (2009) on cylindrical vec-tor beams: from mathemati-cal concepts to applications.  Andrew Sarangan, Professor of EO and ECE, has been cho-sen as one of the 2013 Affili-ate Societies Council Out-standing Scientists & Engi-neers Awards winners. Dr. Sarangan is being recognized in the category of Research, for “many superior contri-butions to nano-technology, image sensor technology, and thin film technology”.  Using a $2M research award from the Ohio Third Frontier Qiwen Zhan, Professor of EO and ECE, has been elected Fellow of SPIE for “achieve-ments in space variant po-larization engineering". SPIE is the International Society for Optics and Photonics. Fellows are Members of dis-tinction who have made sig-nificant scientific and techni-cal contributions in the mul-tidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. They are honored for their techni-cal achievement, for their service to the general optics community, and to SPIE in particular.  Dr. Zhan was rec-ognized and received his Fellow Award at the SPIE Photonics West Conference at San Francisco in February 2013. Dr. Zhan's research interests include Plasmonics, Nanophotonics, Physical Op-tics, Metamaterials, Polariza-tion Optics and Metrology.  program, Dr. Sarangan estab-lished the nano and MEMS fabrication lab at UD, which has now become the center-piece for education and com-mercialization of nano-materials, IR detectors, medi-cal imagers, and novel optical thin films.  In particular, he has developed new methods to engineer the basic mate-rial properties of thin films by controlling their structure at the atomic level.  Recently, he won a NSF grant for pro-moting nanotechnology at the undergraduate level, an, with Dr. Haus, offered a new nanotech course last Fall.  Along with Drs. Haus, Deng and Gao, Dr. Sarangan re-cently also initiated a joint partnership with China South-ern Glass Holdings to fabri-cate electrochromic glass for commercial applications.  Zhan, Sarangan receive awards, recognition Partha P. Banerjee  Director Electro-Optics Program 300 College Park Dayton, OH 45469, USA Phone: 937.229.2797 Fax: 937.229.2097 E-mail: pbanerjee1@udayton.edu Admin: Nancy Wilson; nwilson1@udayton.edu SUMMER SHORT COURSE SERIES   June 3-7, 2013  DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHY. Basic principles; holo-graphic interferometry, microscopy and tomo-graphy; multi-wavelength digital holography; phase-shifting holography; compressive holo-graphy; dynamic holography; etc.,with se-lected applications to real-world problems. Labs accompany lectures.*   NONLINEAR OPTICS. Overview of nonlinear optical effects and devices; second harmonic generation, difference frequency generation, phase matching, parametric amplification, Raman amplification, Brillouin scattering. Em-phasis on real-world applications. This course gives a common mathematical and conceptual framework to describe nonlinear phenomena.   June 10-14, 2013  THIN-FILM ENGINEERING. Fundamentals of thin film design and deposition; PVD & CVD; optical properties of thin film materials; nu-merical methods & optimization; metal film optics; thin film metrology; lab demonstra-tions of  selected optical coating processes.*   INTRODUCTION TO LADAR. Survey of principles of direct detection and coherent detection ladar systems; ladar sources and receivers; effects of illumination path and object scatter-ing;  basic ladar range equation; elements of detection theory as applied to direct detec-tion ladar systems.  * can be also taken as 1 cr.hr. course. EO @ UD A joint initiative between  electrons and photons We are on the Web: www.udayton.edu/engineering/electrooptics_grad/ The back page 4 Top: Dr. Zhan (center) with his Fellowship plaque at 2013 SPIE Photonics West. Bottom: Dr. Sarangan (left) and his (nano)-Fab Five in EOP 632. EON Volume 1 Issue 2 Spring 2013 Did you know?  Between EO faculty and technical staff, there are 17 fellows of na-tional & international organizations:   Partha Banerjee, Fellow, OSA, SPIE; FinstP Joe Haus, Fellow, OSA, SPIE, APS Paul McManamon, Fellow, IEEE, OSA, SPIE, MSS, AFRL Peter Powers, Fellow, SPIE Ed Watson, Fellow, OSA, SPIE, AFRL, MSS Qiwen Zhan, Fellow, SPIE ~10000 sq. ft, 5 labs, offices,  industrial collaborative projects. Optical comm., ladar imaging, aperture synthesis, beam steering In the next issue: • Short courses kick off at EO for first time • New agreement with AFRL supports new EO students EON Volume 2 Issue 1 Fall 2013 

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University of DaytoneCommonsElectro-Optics Newsletter Department of Electro-Optics and PhotonicsFall 2012EON, Vol. 01, No. 01Department of Electro-Optics and PhotonicsFollow this and additional works at: http://ecommons.udayton.edu/eop_newsletterThis Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Electro-Optics and Photonics at eCommons. It has been accepted forinclusion in Electro-Optics Newsletter by an authorized administrator of eCommons. For more information, please contact frice1@udayton.edu,mschlangen1@udayton.edu.Recommended CitationDepartment of Electro-Optics and Photonics, "EON, Vol. 01, No. 01" (2012). Electro-Optics Newsletter. 6.http://ecommons.udayton.edu/eop_newsletter/6Initiative (MURI) for re-search on optical propaga-tion through atmospheric turbulence.  EO had over $2.5M in research expendi-tures in 2011-12.  Dr. Paul McManamon, technical director of LOCI, recently coauthored a seminal Na-tional Research Council study “Optics and Photon-ics—Essential Technologies for our Nation”.  Dr. Qiwen Zhan was promoted to full Professor.  Dr. Brad Dun-can is also serving as Asso-ciate Dean of the Graduate School.  As part of Centen-nial celebrations, several prominent researchers like Vlad Shalaev (Purdue), George Bar-bastathis (MIT), Sanjay Banerjee (Texas, Aus-tin), Andy Steckl (Cincinnati) and Mani-jeh Razeghi (Northwestern) visited UD, toured our facilities, and gave excellent collo-quia to  our students and faculty. Welcome to Electro-Optics (EO)  at UD, which just celebrated 100 years of Engineering.  2012 has been an eventful year thus far at EO.  Dr. Joseph Haus stepped down as EO Direc-tor after 13 years at the helm.  During his time,  EO has grown in national and international prominence, especially with the estab-lishment of LOCI, the Ladar and Optical Communica-tion Institute, with funding from AFRL and various industry partners.  Dr. Haus continues as LOCI Director and is going to be on a well-deserved sabbatical next year.  The newly established UD China Institute (UDCI) has EO lab facili-ties, which will be used for training potential Chinese EO students, and will provide a venue to offer several new regular/short courses.  Typical  new courses in-clude Digital Holography, Nanophotonics, Nano-fabrication, and Propaga-tion in Turbulent Media.  A new nanotechnology course is being offered by Dr. Andrew Sarangan along with Sinclair Community College as part of a 2 year $200K NSF grant.  Dr. Mik-hail Vorontsov, Wright Brothers Endowed Chair in EO,  recently received a 5 year $4.5M Multidiscipli-nary University Research Director’s corner       Partha Banerjee Vorontsov wins $4.5M AFOSR MURI award The  EO program has se-cured federal MURI funds from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), funding that will lead to new jobs in UD. UD will lead the $4.5M project, which includes the Air Force Institute of Tech-nology (AFIT), Michigan Tech University, North Carolina State University, New Mexico State Univer-sity and the University of Miami. UD ranks 23rd na-tionally in sponsored engi-neering research and de-velopment. “The AFOSR MURI contract is signifi-cant. It also is great for Dayton because much of the funds, 64%, and re-search will be at UD and AFIT,” said Dr. Mikhail Vo-rontsov, PI for the MURI.  Vorontsov’s research has already spun off a new company, OPTONICUS, which is housed in EO, and employs 10 researchers and students.  It is ex-pected to hire more in the near future.  Along with OPTONICUS, 2 other small businesses, Defense Engi-neering Corporation (DEC) and Utopia Compression are setting up shop at EO.   Electro-Optics News, University of Dayton EON Laser propagation through turbu-lence between Maui and the Big Island of Hawaii.  This venue of Dr. Voronstov’s experiments for the recent MURI is attractive to faculty and students alike, especially dur-ing winter. Inside this issue SPOTLIGHT: We’ll leave the light on for you, Joe   2 McManamon gives NAC report on harnessing light   2 2012 graduates 3 Selected faculty, student journal publications   3 Sarangan wins NSF award for nano-tech education   3 EO program high-lights  4 Faculty, students receive awards, recognition   4 Fall 2012 Volume 1, Issue 1 Faculty Partha Banerjee Brad Duncan Joseph Haus Peter Powers Andrew Sarangan Mikhail Vorontsov Qiwen Zhan  with  Vijay Asari Rola Aylo Monish Chatterjee Andy Chong Cong Deng Russ Hardie Kiego Hirakawa John Loomis Paul McManamon Nick Miller George Nehmetallah Ernst Polnau Guru Subramanyam Ed Watson Thomas Weyrauch Editor: Partha P. Banerjee EO@UD was a young 15 years old when UD lured Dr. Joe Haus, from Rensselaer Poly-technic Institute to replace Mohammad Karim as the Director.  Under Joe, EO ex-panded its PhD program, introduced new courses and labs, and greatly increased EO’s research revenue. Joe co-founded IDCAST, the Insti-tute for Development and Commercialization of Sensor Technology.  Today IDCAST has its offices in downtown Dayton, and under Larrell Walters continues to attract and support organizations dedicated to sensor research.  With IDCAST established and growing, Joe turned his atten-tion to setting up another research institute, this time in Ladars or laser radars.  LOCI, the Ladar and Optical Communication Institute, was founded on financial contri-butions from AFRL and indus-try, and opened the door to creating the Wright Brothers Endowed Chair in EO, a posi-tion currently occupied by Mikhail Vorontsov.  In all of this, Joe kept up his usual affinity to research, advised MS and PhD students, and collaborated with EO, Physics and ECE faculty, as well as researchers in the US, Mex-ico, and Italy.  In honor of Joe’s stepping down as director, EO and ECE organized an afternoon of colloquia on Sept. 7, 2012 by eminent researchers as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series.  The speakers were George Barbastathis (MIT), Shoji Tominaga (Chiba U., Japan), and Rajesh Naik (AFRL).  Simplicity is a virtue and Joe lives it. During travel, Joe would pick out  Motel 6 at SPIE San Diego or a B&B at Photonics West San Francisco.  We wish you the best in fu-ture endeavors, and promise to leave the light on for you.   SPOTLIGHT: We’ll leave the light on for you, Joe recently took him to the White House where he pre-sented the findings to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.   McManamon said optics and photonics touch nearly every aspect of our daily lives — communications, information processing and data storage, security, energy, health and medicine, manufacturing, advanced photonic measure-ments and applications, stra-tegic materials for optics, and displays. Those are the eight areas the group identified for further development.  He also recommended the federal government develop a national initiative to bring academia, industry and government to-gether for optics and photon-ics research opportunities. "The impact of optics and photonics on U.S. technology leadership is substantial; this is a critical reason to support a National Photonics Initia-tive," McManamon said.   McManamon will present his findings at a EO-ECE Distin-guished Speaker Colloquium on October 19, 2012.  McManamon gives NAC report on harnessing light  The technical director of EO LOCI is on the frontline with U.S. energy Secretary Steven Chu, former Intel CEO Craig Barrett, and researchers from Stanford and Northwestern to make lasers a focal point in boosting the U.S. economy and making revolutionary technical discoveries.   Dr. Paul McManamon is co-chair of the National Acad-emy of Science (NAC) Com-mittee on Harnessing Light: Capitalizing on Optical Sci-ence Trends and Challenges for Future Research. His role Page 2 EON Volume 1 Issue 1 Fall 2012 “The impact of optics and photonics on U.S. technology leadership is substantial; this is a critical reason to support a National Photonics Initiative.”  Paul McManamon,  LOCI, EO Paul McManamon (second from right) and Alan Will-ner (left), co-chair of the NAS report, along with Nobel prize winning  En-ergy Secretary Stephen Chu (2nd from left), for-mer CEO of Intel Craig Barrett (center),  and Rich Linke, executive director for IEEE Photonics (right), on Sept. 12, 2012, at the office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House. At the reception following collo-quia at Boll Theatre. (top) Dean Tony Saliba with Joe and Jeanne Haus, and Nancy Wilson.  (bottom) Joe with LiLi, Kong and Katte (l to r). P. Shah, Z. Wu, and A.  Saran-gan, “Effects of CO2 critical point drying on nanostruc-tured SiO2 thin films after liquid exposure”, Thin Solid Films, to appear. X. Niu, P. Murray, and A. Sarangan, “Synthesis of Fe-Ni Bimetallic Nanoparticles from Pixel Target Ablation: Plume Dynamics and Surface Char-acterization”, J. Nanoparticle Research, to appear. G. Nehmetallah, R. Aylo, P. Powers, A. Sarangan, J. Gao, H. Li, A. Achari, and P. Baner-jee , “Co-sputtered SiC + Ag nanomixtures as visible wavelength negative index metamaterials”, Opt. Exp. 20, 7095-7100 (2012). R. Smith, A. Sarangan, Z. Jiang, and J. Marciante, "Direct measurement of bend-induced mode deformation in large-mode-area fibers", Opt. Exp. 20, 4436-4443 (2012).  P. Banerjee, S. Buller, C. Leibig, G. Cook, D. Evans, P.  Blanche, J. Thomas, and N. Peyghambarian, N., “Time dynamics of self-pumped reflection gratings in photorefractive polymers”, J. Appl. Phys., 111, 013108 (2012).  P. McManamon, “Review of ladar: a historic, yet emerg-ing, sensor technology with rich phenomenology”,  Opt. Engr. 51, 060901 (2012). W. Chen, R. Nelson, and Q. Zhan, "Geometrical phase and surface plasmon focus-ing with azimuthal polariza-tion", Opt. Lett. 37, 581-583 (2012). W. Chen, R. Nelson, and Q. Zhan, "Efficient miniature circular polarization analyzer design using hybrid spiral plasmonic lens", Opt. Lett. 37, 1442-1444 (2012). J. Gao, A. Sarangan, and Q. Zhan, "Polarization multi-plexed fluorescence enhan-cer using a pixelated one-dimensional photonic band gap structure", Opt. Lett. 37, 2640-2642 (2012).  G. Rui, R. Nelson, and Q. Zhan, "Beaming photons with spin and orbital angular mo-mentum via a dipole-coupled plasmonic spiral antenna", Opt. Exp. 20, 18819-18826 (2012). G. Rui, W. Chen, D. Abeysinghe, R. Nelson, and Q. Zhan, "Beaming circularly polarized photons from quantum dots coupled with plasmonic spiral antenna", Opt. Exp. 20, 19297-19304 (2012). M. Aubailly and M. Voront-sov, “Scintillation resistant wavefront sensing based on multi-aperture phase recon-struction technique”, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, 29, 1707-1716 (2012). M. Vorontsov, T. Weyrauch, S. Lachinova, M. Gatz, and G. Carhart, “Speckle-metric-optimization-based adaptive optics for laser beam projec-tion and coherent beam com-bining”, Opt. Lett., 37, 2802-2804 (2012). R. Zhou, Q.  Zhan, P. Pow-ers, B. Ibarra-Escamilla, and J. W. Haus, “An all fiber based Talbot self-imaging device for phase-locking of a multi-fiber laser”,  J. Euro-pean Opt. Soc., Rapid Publi-cations 7, 12012 (2012). B. Nie, Il Saytashev, A. Chong, H. Liu, S. Arkhipov, F. Wise, and M. Dantus, "Multimodal microscopy with sub-30 fs Yb fiber laser oscillator", Biomed. Opt. Exp. 3, 1750-1756 (2012). W. Renninger, A. Chong, and F. Wise, “Pulse shaping and evolution in normal dispersion mode-locked fiber lasers”, IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 18, 389-398 (2012).  R. Hardie and K. Barnard, "Fast super-resolution using an adaptive Wiener filter with robustness to local motion", Opt. Exp. 20, 21053-21073 (2012).   Engineering University Trans-fer program, are developing a program to connect high schools with industry part-ners, offer learning activities that include interactive labo-ratory and clean room experi-ences, provide workshops for high school science teachers and create nanotechnology internship opportunities. "This is an important step for our local and national econ-omy," Sarangan said. "After decades of outsourcing, UD and Sinclair Community College have teamed up to encourage teenagers to pur-sue careers in nanotechnol-ogy.  The National Science Foundation has given the two schools a two-year $200,000 grant to raise awareness among undergraduates and high school students about career opportunities in the nanoscience industry. Dr. Andrew Sarangan, associ-ate director, EO, and Surinder Jain, coordinator of Sinclair's more and more nanotech manufacturing companies are starting to move back to the U.S. Long-term success of any industry needs everyone to be on board — science educators, researchers, engi-neers and technicians. That is the goal we are trying to reach, by partnering with every level in the workforce pipeline." Classes are on this Fall with Sarangan and Joe Haus co-teaching the course at UD. Selected faculty, student journal publications 2012 Sarangan wins NSF award for nanotech education Page 3 2012 Graduates Jennifer Carns, PhD Jian Gao, PhD Ross Bobb, MS Marc Finet, MS Sean McDaniel, MS Samuel Venable, MS Yu Wang, MS Congratulations! EON Volume 1 Issue 1 Fall 2012 “The students will have as near a real-life experience as one could possibly offer without really entering the lab.” Andrew Sarangan,  EO, ECE EO students and researchers hiking with Dr. Haus in German-town Metropark, Spring 2012. OSA and SPIE, and has au-thored 5 textbooks and over 100 refereed journal publica-tions. He is topical editor of Applied Optics from 2009-2015.  Wei Han, EO PhD student, has been awarded the GPCE Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2012-13 academic year.  Wei finished his MS thesis with Joe Haus on microprism arrays.  Currently, he is work-ing on his PhD dissertation with Qiwen Zhan in the area of polarization engineering.  Han Li, a graduate student of EO, received the Newport—Spectra Physics Research Travel Award in 2012.  This award was given to 10 stu-dents worldwide to travel to the SPIE Annual meeting and present their papers.  Han Li’s research interest is in the Partha Banerjee, Professor of EO and Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE), has re-cently been elected to Fellow-ship of the Institute of Phys-ics (IoP)  “in recognition of (his) personal contribution to the advancement of physics as a discipline and a profes-sion.” IoP is a leading interna-tional scientific society that originated in England in 1920 to advance physics research, application and education. Banerjee is the only faculty at UD to be bestowed with this honor. In addition, Banerjee also received the UD Alumni award for research, and the Dayton area Associated Socie-ties Council Research Award in 2012.  Banerjee’s research interests include metamateri-als, digital holography, nonlinear optics, and acousto-optics. He is also Fellow of area of metamaterials and numerical techniques for propagation through com-plex structures.  His MS the-sis and PhD dissertation advi-sor is Partha Banerjee. Qiwen Zhan, Professor of EO and ECE, has been invited to serve as Chair of the Optical Society’s Polarization techni-cal group  for a 3 year term.  In addition, he is topical edi-tor for Applied Optics.  Re-cently, Zhan’s paper on gen-erating cylindrical vector beams was selected as one of the “Highlights of 2011” pa-pers in OSA.  Zhan also re-ceived a recent patent on Polarization engineering.  He will present a talk on “Hot topics in optical design, fabri-cation and instrumentation” in the upcoming FiO OSA Meeting at Rochester, NY. Faculty, students receive awards, recognition Partha P. Banerjee Interim Director Electro-Optics Program 300 College Park Dayton, OH 45469, USA Phone: 937.229.2797 Fax: 937.229.2097 E-mail: pbanerjee1@udayton.edu Admin: Nancy Wilson; nwilson1@udayton.edu EO Program Highlights  • 16 faculty: EO (6), Phys (4), ECE (6); & 7 technical staff   • Offering over 20 courses, includ-ing 4 lab courses • A constantly updated curriculum to address contemporary topics • Over 15 dedicated research labs • State-of-the-art nanofabrication facilities • ~20 MS & ~20 PhD students • Total research funding approx. $3M/yr • Close collaboration w/ AFRL • LOCI: Ladar AF Ctr. of Excellence • MURI lead institution in atmos-pheric propagation • Offering excellent collaborative opportunities for incubation com-panies • Collaboration with leading univer-sities in US and China EO @ UD A joint initiative between  electrons and photons We are on the Web: www.udayton.edu/engineering/electrooptics_grad/ The back page 4 From top: Partha Banerjee, Han Li, Wei Han, and Qiwen Zhan. EON Volume 1 Issue 1 Fall 2012 EO is housed in College Park Center, which just got a $1.6M facelift. ~10000 sq. ft, 5 labs, offices,  industrial collaborative projects. Optical comm., ladar imaging, aperture synthesis, beam steering In the next issue: • Team bonding at MURI kickoff meeting • Nanotech undergrad course: from the classroom EON Volume 1 Issue 2 Spring 2013 

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